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Usage examples of logic.

Because to do so would have been to admit acausal relationships in the Balkans, influences removed from logic which would have been highly confusing in their disorderly ramifications, and had therefore always been thoughtfully ignored as nonexistent.

When confronted with a problem, he has generally reacted with aggression and justified his offensives with distortions and convoluted logic.

Within the dark glistening of the corridors, where surface speaks to surface in tiny whispers like fingers, and the larger codes, the extirpated skeletons of a billion minds, clack together in a cemetery of logic, shaking hands, continually shaking bony, algorithmic hands and observing strict and necessary protocol for the purposes of destruction.

An argumentum ad logic am a brilliant caricature, plausible-sounding and laced with shards of the truth.

The immanent production of subjectivity in the society of control corresponds to the axiomatic logic of capital, and their resemblance indicates a new and more complete compatibility between sovereignty and capital.

His photographs of sexual acts, of sections of automobile radiator grilles and instrument panels, conjunctions between elbow and chromium window-sill, vulva and instrument binnacle, summed up the possibilities of a new logic created by these multiplying artefacts, the codes of a new marriage of sensation and possibility.

Stuart Kauffman, chief scientific officer and co-founder of Cistem Molecular and leading entrepreneur in the developing field of bioinformatics, discusses how computers may be used to determine the circuitry and logic of genes and cells.

Benjy had once told her that human intuition was, in many ways, actually superior to Bolo logic.

PARC technologies never escaped the confines of its copier businessmodel and associated business logic.

The strong internal logic of deep vertical integration, which worked so well for Xerox in the copier and printer business, cast a long shadow over the computer technologies developed at PARC.

The excellent doctor, who was in no way a philosopher, made me study the logic of the Peripatetics, and the cosmography of the ancient system of Ptolemy, at which I would laugh, teasing the poor doctor with theorems to which he could find no answer.

Her logic was better than that of Cicero in his Tusculan Disputations, but she admitted that such lasting felicity could exist only between two beings who lived together, and loved each other with constant affection, healthy in mind and in body, enlightened, sufficiently rich, similar in tastes, in disposition, and in temperament.

He smiled cynically at the moral height to which his logic thus pointed the way.

This is called the Quantification of the Predicate, and leads to some modifications of Deductive Logic which will be referred to hereafter.

If, indeed, the value of Logical systems were to be judged of by the results obtainable, formal deductive Logic would probably be superseded.